Seminars

By actively encouraging knowledge dissemination and discussion we hope to raise awareness about key ecological issues and build opportunities for collaboration among our partners.

Scheduled seminar sessions are held at ARI on Mondays 1-2 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Each session runs for a total of one hour and includes time for questions. Sessions may involve multiple speakers giving shorter 'snapshot' style presentations. Note that the schedule is subject to change at short notice.

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Seminars are at: 123 Brown Street Heidelberg, Victoria

2019 ARI Research Seminar Series

Our 2019 series has now concluded. We are currently developing our 2020 schedule.

2019		Speaker(s) and subject
December	18th Wednesday 2-3 pm	Fern Hames (ARI, Communication & Collaboration) *Antarctica Part II: Lessons in leadership*
November	18th	Josephine MacHunter & Nevil Amos (ARI, Fire Ecology) *FAME decision tools for biodiversity - a breakthrough in fire management* Ivor Stuart (ARI, Population Processes) *Restoring fish populations in the Murray-Darling Basin: future directions and perspectives*
October	7th	Dan Stoessel (ARI, Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation) *Understanding salinity tolerance of Murray Hardyhead to guide environmental water* Michael Scroggie (ARI, Wildlife Management) *Fragmentation and disturbance drive occurrence and persistence of grassland herpetofauna*
September	9th	Yael Rodger (Monash University) Genetic rescue of an endangered grassland daisy Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides Emma Barnett (Monash University) *How well do ex situ plant collections capture the genetic diversity of their founders?*
August	12th	Manisha Bhardwaj (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) How is linear infrastructure (road & railway) impacting wildlife?
August	19th	Matthew Selinske (RMIT University) Prioritising human behaviour change for conservation in Victoria
July	8th 10:30 am	Uncle Dave Wandin (Wurundjeri Woi-wurrang Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation) Cultural burning
May	13th	Annette Muir (ARI, Fire Ecology) *Does fire interval, fire severity or weather affect Hairpin Banksia persistence?* Luke Collins (ARI postdoctoral, Community Ecology and La Trobe University) *Are eucalypt forests resilient to regimes of frequent high severity fire?*
May	27th	Michael Whitehead (University of Melbourne) *Linking pollinator behaviour and floral evolution*
April	15th	Phil Papas (ARI, Riparian and Wetland Ecology) *Measuring ecological responses to the restoration of water regimes in wetlands* Geoff Heard (ARI, Wildlife Management) *Sixteen years of Growling Grass Frog research on Melbourne's urban fringe: where to next?*
April	29th	Amy Edwards (La Trobe University, School of Life Sciences) *Maternal sex allocation: tales of the controlling mother, the changing climate and rainbow-coloured sperm* Caleb McElrea (University of Melbourne) *The echidna phallus: a four-pronged approach*
March	4th	Tarmo Raadik (ARI, Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation) *Barriers benefiting biodiversity* Lyndsey Vivian (ARI, Riparian and Wetlands) *Moira grass plains at Barmah Forest*
March	25th	Bob Wong (Monash University, Behavioural Ecology Research Group) *Behavioural responses to a changing world: evolutionary and ecological consequences*
February	18th	Lachlan Francis (ARI, Predator Management) Predator control on Macquarie Island & Conservation benefits of feral cat management on Bruny Island

2018 ARI Research Seminar Series

Presentations that were part of our 2018 series.

2018		Speaker(s) and subject
December	3rd	Amber Clarke (DELWP, Water and Catchments) *Making the long-term and large-scale commitment to waterway health in Victoria* Jarod Lyon (ARI, Applied Aquatic Ecology) *How many carp are there in Australia?*
	4th Tuesday	Jim Capurso (United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service) *River restoration in the Pacific Northwest*
	7th Friday	Ian Cowx (University of Hull, Hull International Fisheries Institute & Michigan State University) *Decoupling the impact of societal development and climate change on fisheries in the Lower Mekong Delta*
	10th	Rodney van der Ree (University of Melbourne, School of BioSciences) *Trends in the number of flying-foxes in Victoria - what might the future hold?*
November	29th Thursday	Melissa Haeffner (Portland State University, Environmental Science and Management) *A research agenda for environmental justice*
October	8th	David Meagher (Environmental consultant) *What's that green stuff? The bryophyte flora of Lord Howe Island*
	22nd	Kay Morris (ARI, Riparian and Wetlands) *The Riparian Intervention Monitoring Program: gathering evidence of riparian responses to management* Katherine Harrisson (ARI postdoctoral, and La Trobe University) *Assessing stocking outcomes, connectivity and genetic health in Golden Perch*
September	10th	Brad Farmilo (ARI, Vegetation Ecology and Threatened Flora) *Quantifying effectiveness of weed control in threatened Victorian grasslands* Lauren Johnson (ARI, Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation) *Continuing the recovery of Barred Galaxias - learning by doing*
September	24th	Jason Alexandra (Environmental consultant - Alexandra & Associates) *Conversing about water governance with Alfred Deakin's ghost*
August	13th	Jim Fredericks (Idaho Department of Fish and Game, USA) *Fisheries Research Section: the mission, the model, and the greatest hits*
July	2nd	Lindy Lumsden (ARI, Wildlife Ecology) *Artificially creating new hollows for the Critically Endangered Leadbeater's Possum* Justin O'Connor (ARI, Aquatic Connectivity & Fish Passage) *Guidelines for fishway managment in Victoria* Frank Amtstaetter (ARI, Aquatic Connectivity & Fish Passage) *Fishways provide catchment-scale improvements to a diadromous fish population upstream of barrier*
July	30th	Zeb Tonkin (ARI, Instream Habitat & Environmental Flows) *Monitoring fish responses to environmental flows across Victoria: a shift towards understanding processes, population dynamics and long-term projections* Chris Jones (ARI, Riparian & Wetland Ecology) *Regular intervention monitoring providing valuable insights into vegetation responses to environmental flows on rivers* Charles Todd (ARI, Population Processes) *Large scale population dynamics of an enigmatic fish: basin wide population dynamics of Golden Perch*
May	14th	Liam Smith (BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute) Conducting behavioural reserach to deliver better environmental behaviour change programs
April	9th	Will Mooney (Murray Lower Darling Rivers - Indigenous Nations) National Cultural Flows Research Project
April	23rd	John Lesku (La Trobe University, School of Life Sciences) Sleeping in the sea & air
March	19th	Anne Christianson (University of Minnesota) Climate resilience: looking at social-ecological system vulnerabilities through a gender lens
	26th	Sam Grover (La Trobe University & RMIT) Peatlands of the Victorian Alps and Indonesia
February	19th	Paul Sunnucks (Monash University, School of Biological Sciences) Climate adaptation and population divergence in the Eastern Yellow Robin